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All sail set : a romance of the Flying Cloud / written and illustrated by Armstrong Sperry ; introduction by William McFee. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Nonpareil book ; 35.Publication details: Boston : D.R. Godine, [(c)1984, (c)1935.Edition: sixth editionDescription: xvi, 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0879235233
  • 9780879235239
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PZ7.S751.A457 1984
  • PZ7.S749.S751.A457 1984
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Contents:
I Meet Donald McKay--and Swear a Vow A Ship Is Born The Unforseen Happens--I Go to Sea I Make Three Friends--and Get My Sea Legs My First Fight--and an Enemy Made A Passport from Neptune--and Trouble in the Foc'sle Yarns Spun in the Second Dogwatch--We Hear Tell of the Corposant The Flying Cloud in the Roaring Forties--We See the Corposant--Tragedy off Cape Horn The Pacific Slant--Whates--I Remember a Vow Land Ho! A Nugget of Gold--A Ship Clears for China.
Every hour that I was not in school, found me down at the wharves Messina Clarke was a small man but tough Turning back to me, Donald McKay demanded, "An' what mak's ye come to me for a position?" ; Here I felt at home and here I had passed the happiest hours of my life Old Messina Clarke The Flying Cloud...lay at the water's edge I kissed my mother good-by By twelve noon I went aboard my ship Sail-plan of the clipper Captain Creesy saw the men coming and stopped in his stride Up the narrowing web of the shrouds Sneed fled with the mate at his heels Sometimes of an early evening, Brick and I...would climb hand over hand to the upper rigging We had picked up the southeast trades The single peak...reared like a gigantic finger ; "Go ahead then!" the mate yelled, beside himself by now ; "Stern all!" yelled the mate, and the boat was instantly oared backward to clear the whale The breeze had freshened, and Captain Creesy gave the order to return to the Flying Cloud One of the men...I had never seen before There was a ship out there beating across the bay with all canvas spread.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 1936
Summary: When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and eventually makes a maiden, record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the "Flying Cloud."
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Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) G. Allen Fleece Library Newbery Award Collection - Second Floor Fiction PZ7.S749 1984 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001756150

Title on added t.p.: The Flying Cloud, clipper, 1851-1874.

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I Meet Donald McKay--and Swear a Vow A Ship Is Born The Unforseen Happens--I Go to Sea I Make Three Friends--and Get My Sea Legs My First Fight--and an Enemy Made A Passport from Neptune--and Trouble in the Foc'sle Yarns Spun in the Second Dogwatch--We Hear Tell of the Corposant The Flying Cloud in the Roaring Forties--We See the Corposant--Tragedy off Cape Horn The Pacific Slant--Whates--I Remember a Vow Land Ho! A Nugget of Gold--A Ship Clears for China.

Every hour that I was not in school, found me down at the wharves Messina Clarke was a small man but tough Turning back to me, Donald McKay demanded, "An' what mak's ye come to me for a position?" ; Here I felt at home and here I had passed the happiest hours of my life Old Messina Clarke The Flying Cloud...lay at the water's edge I kissed my mother good-by By twelve noon I went aboard my ship Sail-plan of the clipper Captain Creesy saw the men coming and stopped in his stride Up the narrowing web of the shrouds Sneed fled with the mate at his heels Sometimes of an early evening, Brick and I...would climb hand over hand to the upper rigging We had picked up the southeast trades The single peak...reared like a gigantic finger ; "Go ahead then!" the mate yelled, beside himself by now ; "Stern all!" yelled the mate, and the boat was instantly oared backward to clear the whale The breeze had freshened, and Captain Creesy gave the order to return to the Flying Cloud One of the men...I had never seen before There was a ship out there beating across the bay with all canvas spread.

When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and eventually makes a maiden, record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the "Flying Cloud."

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Newbery Honor Book, 1936

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